Taylor Road Water Tower Rehab Project Moves Forward

ROMEOVILLE, IL — The Romeoville Village Board has moved forward on the Taylor Road water tower rehabilitation project after approving design and bidding services for the project at Wednesday's meeting.

The Board approved a professional service task order from Strand Engineering for the project.

"It's at that point where we want to go get the paint project moving, so we can get ahead of some of the bidding environments," Public Works Director Chris Drey said.

"We're seeing just a lot of delays on a lot of the construction efforts," Drey said. "So we're trying to get ahead of things."

He added that if the Village waited another year, the project might need sandblasting.

"We really don't want to do that, we want to try and catch it beforehand and be as fiscally responsible as we can," Drey said.

The rehabilitation on the 1 million-gallon tank would include pressure washing the exterior, and repainting and repairing damaged areas on the inside and outside of the tank, according to Board documents.

The estimated fee for this task order is $28,700.

Further approvals for this project would go back in front of the Board; this task order is just for bidding services.